Imperial Valley News Center
Private browsing gets more private
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Today, most web browsers have private-browsing modes, in which they temporarily desist from recording the user’s browsing history.
Norteño Gang Member Sentenced To 17 Years And Six Months In Prison For RICO Conspiracy And Use Of Firearms
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- Written by IVN
San Jose, California - Julian Ruiz was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy and for using or possessing firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down earlier today by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
Targeting pathway may reduce cocaine’s cardiovascular harms
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- Written by American Heart Association
Dallas, Texas - Scientists have discovered a potential new pathway to treat the harmful effect of cocaine on the cardiovascular system, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension.
Vegetarian and Mediterranean diet may be equally effective in preventing heart disease
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- Written by Carrie Thacker
Dallas, Texas - A lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet, which includes eggs and dairy but excludes meat and fish, and a Mediterranean diet are likely equally effective in reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.
NIH pilot project will match researchers to genes, gene variants of interest
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- Written by Jeannine Mjoseth
Washington, DC - Databases such as the 1000 Genomes Project and the Exome Aggregation (link is external) Consortium (ExAC) harbor large numbers of genotypes (an individual’s collection of genes). Until now, it has been difficult for researchers to re-contact individuals with genotypes of interest and investigate the health consequences of their genes and gene variants. To address this challenge, National Institutes of Health and Inova Health System (link is external) researchers are launching The Genomic Ascertainment Cohort (TGAC), a two-year pilot project that will allow them to recall genotyped people and examine the genes and gene variants’ influence on their phenotypes, an individual’s observable traits, such as height, eye color or blood type.
Attorney General Becerra Files Brief in Support of Legal Challenge to Arkansas’ Restrictive Abortion Laws
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- Written by Imperial Valley News
Sacramento, California - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, alongside 15 Attorneys General, Thursday filed an amicus brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the plaintiff in Hopkins v. Jegley, a lawsuit that seeks to protect a woman’s right to safe and legal abortion care.
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